Olga Beaver

Olga Beaver (12 November 1942 – 7 December 2012) was a Czech-American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Williams College.[1] She was the recipient of the second Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics.[2] She is noted for having founded the Summer Science Program at Williams. She served as the director of the SSP for many years, and was the chair of the Mathematics Department at Williams for five and a half years.[1]

Olga Rozinak Beaver
BornNovember 12, 1942
Prague, Czechoslovakia
DiedDecember 7, 2012(2012-12-07) (aged 70)
Alma materUniversity of Missouri – Kansas City, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Known forSummer Science Program at Williams College
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsWilliams College
Doctoral advisorThurlow Adrean Cook

Education

Olga Beaver began her undergraduate education at Smith College. While still enrolled, she married Don Beaver. She left the college in 1962 when she became pregnant.[1] She began taking classes at Southern Connecticut State College. After her husband finished his Ph.D. in 1966, the family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Olga continued her work on her bachelor's degree at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, completing her bachelor's in 1968 and her master's in 1969 (also at UMKC).[1] In 1972, Beaver enrolled in the Ph.D. program at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] She earned her doctorate from UMass in 1979, in the mathematics of quantum logic.[3]

Awards and honors
  • 2nd Louise Hay Award[2]
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References
  1. "Professor Beaver's Memorial Minute". Mathematics & Statistics. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  2. "Louise Hay Award 1992 Winner: Olga Beaver". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  3. "Olga Beaver - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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